Today With Sean O Rourke Tuesday 22 April 2014

Today with Sean O'Rourke

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David Moyes Departure

Following the announcement on the Manchester United Twitter account this morning that their manager of eleven months, David Moyes has left the club, Sean got reaction from RTE soccer pundit, Eamon Dunphy and Dion Fanning, Football correspondent with The Sunday Independent.

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Feeding the Brain

We think of food primarily as fuel for the body, but the brain needs nourishment too, and from birth to death what we eat and drink has a vital role in the development and maintenance of our grey matter.

Professor Mike Gibney is from the UCD Institute of Food and Health and he spoke with Sean about the food we need to fuel our thoughts.

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Syria

Tens of thousands of people are on the brink of starvation in Syria, twenty thousand of them in the disputed Damascus suburb of Yarmouk.

Food has been scarce in Yarmouk since the beginning of the year but conditions have dramatically worsened recently after the regime blocked food supplies in an attempt to force rebel groups inside to surrender.

The Guardian’s Middle East correspondent Martin Chulov spoke to Sean from Beirut.

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History of Sport

We are a country steeped in sport. The sports we play and enjoy today have their roots in a far different era.

A new book, Sport in Ireland, 1600–1840 isthe first book to examine all the main sports played in Ireland over a nearly 250 year period, from the beginning of the 17th century to the onset of the Famine.

Its author is James Kelly, Cregan professor of history at St Patrick’s College spoke to Sean about the sporting events of the past.